Pontefract cakes can be bad for you: refractory hypertension and liquorice excess

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 1999 Jan;14(1):218-20. doi: 10.1093/ndt/14.1.218.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antihypertensive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Female
  • Glycyrrhiza / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Hydrocortisone / urine
  • Hypertension / chemically induced*
  • Hypertension / drug therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Plants, Medicinal*
  • Potassium / blood
  • Spironolactone / therapeutic use
  • Steroids / urine

Substances

  • Antihypertensive Agents
  • Steroids
  • Spironolactone
  • Potassium
  • Hydrocortisone